But the green settee, likes to be here.
Zoë Ryder White
I go.
we LOVE!!!!
either!!!
A poem is a gesture toward home.
Zoë Ryder White
thank u for the reminder, snoopy 🥹
Zoë Ryder White, our POTW 💙
does paula teach any classes on this or
Love me because I am lost; Love me that I am undone.
How do you process grief?
No, you. But it's so good. No, it's yours.
poetry prompt of the week: split yourself into three characters. three major facets of yourself. how would each of these parts of yourself react to the same situation?
You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn't what you dreamed of, it doesn't kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it.
Mary Beatrice Davidson
when all the pieces come together 😩
You’re writing about your mother’s sexuality, your own shame and curiosity, and that devastating image of bees pouring from her breast. Tell us how you’re able to be so “shamelessly” honest in these poems? 💙
Every price you pay to fix the situation is worth not going the wrong way, and starting to go the right way.
I have surely lived a life of joy with you...
I want to give you something back—
Ivan Turgenev
what book is it?
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There’s a theory that a poet’s work tends toward one of four major axes—poetry of the body, poetry of the mind, poetry of the heart, or poetry of the soul. Where would you place your work, if at all?
Kahlil Gibran
Ren Hang, Journal of Depression.
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We asked Lexi Pelle: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received? Alternatively: what would you tell other poets about writing the unsayable? 💙
Although the wind blows terribly here...
